All the Perl that's Practical to Extract and Report

Navigation

The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
Without JavaScript enabled, you might want to
use the classic discussion system instead. If you login, you can remember this preference.

You have some weird ideas on how community projects work: you think that there's a cabal that controls the project. Well, you may call it a cabal, but anyone can join. You just have to write some idea in the mailing lists, or talk on the IRC channels, or submit a patch to the code or the documentation.

If you have an interest in the outcome of the project, you don't ignore it for 12 years and t

Wow, the more I think about your reply, the more I am amazed. Do they have this kind of hold on you? Look at the logo they pushed. Look at the response Wall and his minions had on that. Look at what they do, look at what they say. Look at the discussions, the sheer insanity of Wall's answers.
These are the leaders you want? Wow. Just wow.

I guess you defend the liberties of kicking people out when you don't like what they have to say, right? One true programming language is much better than a few - and it's easier to think that these guys are great - who is going to criticize Conway's awful CPAN code that barely has any comments? (see for instance Parse::RecDescent - the internals are not documented) I mean, these are sacred cows, right?

As for the information on who chromatic is, it's public knowledge (I found it via Google,) whether you like it or not. Suppressing information for the benefit of a self-designated intelligentsia group is fascism.

Also, do you want to know why Parse:RecDescent is only documented as pod and noone cares? Because he is a sacred cow, everyone assumes that his code MUST be good, and whatever he writes goes straight into stuff that we are supposed to use -- just because he is Doctor Conway, who can code in his sleep.

Also, since we as perl minions have the delusion that "speed doesn't matter", as long as it works we don't look into it - who cares how fast it is?

You are the one who brought up P::RD. Then you proceeded to fantasise a completely hypothetical response to your point; then worked yourself into a lather over the fantasy; then proceeded to hallucinate that something real took place – and yeah, then you needed a break from an “exchange” which took place entirely inside your head.

You know what the funniest thing is?

Everyone already knows to avoid Damian-ware. Imagine. No one is offended. No one cares.

While Mr. Warden (or Mr. Christopher or Mr. Erle or Mr. Nutter or Mr. Carlyle or Mr. Collier, whoever you decide to believe I am next) might, I'm much more interested in that research to which you referred Moritz months ago, or your thoughts on the APL case studies I recommended, or you talking on #perl6 or writing to p6l with constructive suggestions on how to improve learnability and cohesion and language retention.

I don't know what to tell you, Wendy Darling. In between your frenetic bursts of trying to track down Mr. Warden (I should admit to some connection, as did drive by his house this weekend; it's over two hours south of mine), did you happen to find your research papers? I know several other people are interested in proof that Perl 6 is doomed somewhat more conclusive than "Perl 6 is doomed, and I read somewhere why!"